Re: rsyncing to live apt-rpm repository

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Gary Greene wrote:

> On Friday 10 March 2006 07:52 pm, Kai wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it safe to rsync to a live apt-rpm repository? Or is it recommended
>> to first shutdown the web server hosting the repository?
>
> Should be safe. When I was a part of the Ark Linux project, this was how we
> maintained our mirrors.

Clients can get checksum failures, missing file-errors and such if 
they happen to update in mid-sync but it's safe in the sense that nothing 
horrible will happen - they'd get errors anyway if you'd shut down the web 
server. Rsyncing live mirrors is how pretty much everybody does it anyway 
:)

 	- Panu -